Pablo de Azcarate

PAUL DE AZC? RATE AND FLOREZ

(1890-1971)

"For those who have experienced the most basic of functions

Presidential is easy to realize the difficulties

showed exceptional president of the "full" of

Institute (Social Reform) in those early years of

century, with a delegation still imbued with the employer

minded selfish, obstinate and uncompromising capitalism itself

classic, which was anathema to the very fact of being

faced on a par with a delegation working. "

Pablo de Azcarate.

THE VOICE OF AN AMBASSADOR OF THE REPÚBLICAPablo Azcarate, a professor of administrative law at the University of Santiago de Compostela and the University of Granada, deputy to the Cortes, officer since 1922 in the League of Nations in Geneva, he served as ambassador of the Republic in London during the war years. In exile, besides the important missions entrusted to it by the United Nations, wrote interesting historical studies. Open-minded man and irreproachable intellectual and moral integrity, earned the respect of their own ideological adversaries. His work as a historian and writer are a valuable contribution to essential chapters of modern history.

The writer and diplomat Pablo de Azcarate y Florez was born in Madrid on July 30, 1890 and died in Geneva on December 13, 1971. Nephew of prestigious intellectual Gumersindo Azcarate, one of the main introducers of Krausism in Spain and one of the leading figures in the movement of reform and social progress of Spain in the first half of the twentieth century, a specialist in legislation and administrative law, President Melquiades Reform Party? Alvarez and president of the Institute of Social Reforms, and brother, Justin de Azcarate, MP, Minister of the Republic during the war and Sen. real name in the transition. Pablo de Azcarate is raised in a family of Leon and progressive circles way the Free Institution of Education. Completed his law studies with a doctorate from the Universidad Central de Madrid. In 1918 a professor of administrative law at the University of Compostela and later passes of Granada, in the same year, in the elections of February 24, gets the minutes of a Member of Parliament for the Reform Party for the constituency de Leon. By this time has already expanded studies in France and England.

In 1922 he is member of the League of Nations and serves on the Department for Protection of Ethnic Minorities, and in 1933 he became secretary general of the League of Nations. In September 1936 a waiver of such expense, to be appointed ambassador to London by the Republican Government, from where he made the effort, without success, for Britain to abandon the policy of "nonintervention." After the war provoked by the military rebellion of General Franco, is dedicated to helping the Spanish Republicans in exile through the Service Spanish Refugee Evacuation (SERE). Established in London, with the help of Negrin, personal and political friend, the Spanish Institute, which lasted from 1946 to 1950 and had as main contributors to Cernuda, Salazar Martinez Torner and Chapela. He was a collaborator of Independence, Spanish cultural biweekly magazine whose first issue was published in Paris in October 1946. In 1947 the Organization of the United Nations appointed him assistant secretary of the Palestine Commission, then leads the group of experts from the Commission to intervene in the partition of Palestine. Acting municipal commissioner is Jerusalem. Then Secretary of the Truce Commission and representative of Count Bernadotte to the Egyptian Government and the League? Rabe.

In 1949 he was appointed secretary of the Conciliation Commission for Palestine United Nations. Since 1952 he settled in Geneva and spent the last years of his life to historical works. He is a collaborator of the Swiss newspaper Le Journal in Geneva and several Spanish and foreign journals.

Pablo de Azcarate has left us some magnificent historical studies, such as Wellington and Spain (1960), War 98 (1968), Gumersindo Azcarate (1969) and other works Krausists issues, such as those on the university question (1967) , Julian Sanz del Río (1969), and his article "Notes on the origin of the Free Institution of Education" (Journal of the Royal Academy of History). Other works are: The parish system of England (1912), War and public services of an industrial (1921), state administrative intervention in the railways (1917), The league of nations and national minorities (1944 ), the Nazi-fascist intervention in the war in Spain (1957), Mission to Palestine 1948-1952 (1966), Protection of Minorities (1966), Mission in Palestine: the birth of the State of Israel (1968) and League of Nations and National Minorities (1969). Posthumously published My embassy in London during the Spanish Civil War (1976). This fervent supporter of the parliamentary system left us saying: "The normal functioning of the parliamentary system as a basic condition requires an electoral system that ensures, in theory and in practice, an accurate representation of public opinion in Parliament."



Francisco Arias Solis

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